PRESENTATION REHEARSAL

The topic is the monarchy and the main idea is that the monarchy has a lot of problems. 3 bodies will support the main idea.

Pizzeria e trattoria da ISA

Last Friday, I went to the pizza restaurant named "Pizzeria e trattoria da ISA" in Nakameguro.

It was popular ,so I waited for20 minutes. The owner has a experience to go to Italy and to learn what pa pizza is. The restaurant motto is that you can enjoy tasting which makes you feel you were in Italy. Assistants looked very busy. I ordered Margherita and corn pizza.They were so tasty. I would like to come here again.

WRITING- NATIONAL PORTRAITS

(a) Ichiro Suzuki(1973.10.22~）



 The japanese baseball super star Ichiro is also the star player of Major League Baseball. He has scored a lot of hits every year . His original batting style is called the batting style like pendulum. His battinfg technic is in the hiest level. He also runs fast, has a storong throwing arm and catch arttistic. He knows baseball deeply. This portrait was drawn when he spenhis last season of Mariners. The beard shows his growth in character and hi is not young. His age is counting neary 40. We would like to see his last challenge!


      Yukichi Fukuzawa(1835.1.10~1901.2.3)



 Everyone knows him. He is a founder of Keio Gijyuku. He was a great person. He was born in Nakasu, Oita. He thought about unfairness of the feudal system and he studied very hard for breaking the old world. He learned Rangaku, however, after recognizing the importnce of English, he studied Englis hard and he went to foreign countries and had a culture shock. After coming back to Japan, he worked for educaing persons amd making leaders. For this purpose, he founded Keio. He aloso said that it was important to have a storong health body,not only a good brain. This portrait was drawn when he was 60.


(b) Sir Alex Ferguson (1941.12.31~)


He was the manager of Mancheater United. Manchester United is one fo the biggest soccer clubs in the world his ManU has  been storong for 27 years. He regarded the basis of the team important. His strategy was simple and he often used "4-4-2". He was good at teaching young players and great players such as David Beckham,Ryan Giggs, Paul Schaules and so on. Hoever, he was called "Hair Dryer" because he often became angry quickly. He was Manchester United.

WRITING- THE MONARCHY

I think the Japanese monarchy is a good system. His Majesty the Emperor is the symbol of us and the majesty has cheered up us for a long time. Now, the majesty  does not have the poliyical power, so the majesty can be a chance for citizens to be one group. In addition , the majesty proves our history. Our duty is maintainig the monarchy.

DEBATE_THE MONARCHY

I was the audience. The question was "What could the government do if Britain quit maintaing the monarchy. The answer was "The government could implement a lot of policies such as reducing tax, social security, public under taking and so on. Citizens are able to spend their lives more comfortably".

Gold Cat tournament

The yacht race tournament named"Gold Cat tournament"was held last Saturday in Enoshima. The reason why the race name is Gold Cat tournament is that the victory cup is a gold cat.



The condition was that light wind blew and it was wavy, so it was difficult to sail.
I was not abele to join the race because I changed my sailing task crew to skipper and I was not good enough. However, it was good for me to watch how to sail well. I would like to practice and try!

About time

 I watched the movie " About time " in the theater of TOHO in Roppongi. Abouttime is a love comedy.

The story is about the family in England. The men of the family have the special ability that men can come back to the future. The young 22 man Tim is a main character. Tim decides to move to London for being the lawyer. Tim falls love in Mary but he can not get her in a gereral way. He uses the acilty of timetravelling and asa a result, he gets her. Howevere spending days with Mary, he realizes that timetravelling is not a perfect ability and there is a more important thing. What dose he do?

It made my heart warm and I thoughht about what is important in my life. I than k to my family, friends and lovers.

I strongly suggest you to watch this movie!

WRITING- ENGLISH SPORTS

Cricket is a sport which has the second largest population in the world. In another words, it means that it is worth thinking about cricket. Now, what cricket is, the history of cricket and cricket will be shown.

  Depending on the format, a game of cricket can last hours, a day, on a case of test cricket up to 5 days. Basic rules called rose do not change in a case of each format. Cricket is the sport that 22 players use a bat and a ball on the grass big field called the “oval”. Cricket is like baseball. Each team takes its turn to bat attempting to score runs, while the other team fields. Each turn is an inning same the baseball. However unlike baseball, generally one team bats once. The aim is getting a lot of points while batting. Over is the same as out in baseball. One team can bat while counting 20 overs.

  The history of cricket began in the 13^th century. Shepherds played as a play at the first time. Cricket became a major sport in Britain in 18^th century and MCC which stands for Marrieborn cricket club made the basic cricket rule. Professional cricket clubs were established. In the 19^th century, cricket spread over the world. Now cricket is played in Australasia, England, New Zealand ,the Indian subcontinent, the West Indies and Southern Africa.

  Cricket is not popular in Japan. I searched the book about cricket written injapanese, but I could not find. I suggest that the association of cricket of Japan would write books and videos in Japanese and in English classes, text book introduce about cricket. Japanese should play cicket.

Nice off!

 I went to Ebisu last Thursday.I had a cahnce to go to the live of UNCHAIN.  UNCHAIN was formed in Kyoto in 1996. The menbers are Masanori Tanigawa(Vo.),Masafumi Sato(Gt.), Hiroaki Tani(B),Shogo Yoshida(Dr).Taking influence from Blues, Jazz, and of course rock music, they have a lot of originality. With a high pitched back up singer and a milder one for a frontman it really helps the band with vocals, as does the great work they do on the songs instrumentals. The vokal is also good. He sings strongly and beautifully.I like UNCHAIN!

The live was held on LIQUIDROOM. The concept of the live was celebration of the new album "N.E.W.S" and it was the tour final day. The live was so fantastic and I was sooo excited!


 After enjoying the live, I ate ramen  of "Afuri". That was based on solty soup and ctron tasty. It was delicious.



I spent a good time!

The Intercollegiate sailing championship

The intercollegiate sailing championship in Odo,Fukuoka was held from October 31th to November 3th. Odo is a famous place which wind often blows strongly in autumn and winter.

 

However, beginning 2 days did not have enough wind for race. All members had stress for that, but it is said that everything can happen in the championship. We maintain the motivations. Last 2 days were in survival conditions. The wind blew so strongly. It was severe for players .On the other hand ,we practiced a lot in the windy condition, so races became simple for us.

Lastly ,Keio got the 3^rd place. We aim for the victory so it was a failure., but I am satisfied with the result.

WRITING- STREET CARNIVAL

Street festivals are held worldwide and they are also cultural events. By searching festivals, we can get information about racial characteristics. In this essay, Goa Carnival is talked.

 Goa was a colony of Portugal. The old beautiful churches built in Goa are the UNESCO world heritage place, and we can see construction like the model of a baroque style and Goa culture is affected by Portugal.

Then, Goa carnival was first started in Goa in 1961.

It was first celebrated by King Momo ,which is one of the Chaos King of the state of the

Since the state has experienced different the reign of the Portuguese rulers more than 500 years, this festival will reflect some of the Portuguese lifestyle.

However, recently, people from different caste and creed, will celebrate in this carnival in the same way and participate. This Goa festival will drew its meaning from the Latin word "carnival", which means "to throw away the meat. Therefore, one of the strict rules of this important festival of Goa, is to withhold the meat in time carnival. So as to extend generally 3 to 4 in one year, this carnival is one of the eagerly awaited Goa festival.

In early time, festival was exclusively famous by local residents of the state. However, currently, the carnival of Goa attracts a lot of people of different several places in India.

The most characteristics thing of the carnival is a rich decoration. People who join the carnival wear gorgeous costumes and walk and dance.

 The Goa carnival will be continued forever.

Sina Ringo

I like listening to music. My favorite artists are Sina Ringo, Tokyo Incidents( Ringo's band) and UNCHAIN. Today I would like to talk about Sina Ringo.

She is a rock music singer　. She was born in Saitama and She became interested in music in her youth. She took parts in a lot of  music bands when she was a high school student.  Her first record was hit and she took up the steps to a star singer.
My first time to listeng to Ringo was very surprising to me and I decided to a fan of her. The song was "Gunjyoubiyori". It was good balanced and each part has a strong characteristics.
By the way , her new album" Hi-Izurutokoro" will be sold on November 4th. I am looking to forward to buying the album!

WRITING- POLICE AND CRIME

The danger of organized crime

 Nowadays organized crime is one of the concerned topics. When you turn TV and watch a news program, you can get information about cases of murder. Some of them are organized crime related to “Yakuza” in Japan. Yakuza also earn money in illegal ways.

It is a very dangerous situation for citizens. In another words, groups which are against our society get strong and active. Two examples are going to show how danger organized crime is and the hint to solve this problem will be produced.

 First one is Yakuza in Japan. Yakuza is a gangster in Japan. There are some groups of yakuzas such as Yamaguchigumi,Sumiyoshikai and so on. Yakuza have their territories and they get fees called “mikadukiryou” from people who do business in their territories.Yakuzas also lend money. In addition, bad yakuza groups deal with drugs and they have strong money bases. The bad yakuzas are fierce and fight with another yakuzas for making their territory bigger. Sometimes general citizens are killed by accident and the our society get threatening. Yakuzas may have bad effects on us.

 Second one is mafia in Italy. Mafia is made up of many members and their main business is selling drug. They earn a lot of illegal money. By using their illegal property, they have stronger power than political organization. For example, Napoli is one of dirtiest cities in Italy and this area is not safe. Napoli is not under control of politic organization. This means that our safe lives are not guaranteed.

 It is possible to say that these two examples show us the danger of organized crime. Then, the organization which is against organized crime is needed. The good one is SOCA in England. SOCA stands for Serious Organized Crime Agency. The Agency was formed following a merger of the National Crime Squad, the National Criminal Intelligence Service (elements of which were incorporated into AVCIS), the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), the investigative and intelligence sections of HM Revenue & Customs on serious drug trafficking, and the Immigration Service's responsibilities for organized immigration crime. According to BBC news, The board directed that around 40% of its effort should be devoted to combating drug trafficking, 25% to tackling organized immigration crime, around 10% to fraud, 15% on other organized crime and the remaining 10% on supporting other law enforcement agencies. We can understand that making a national organization against organized crime is very important. Japan should think about making the organization and protection from bad gangster groups.

 In conclusion, recently gangster groups have stronger power than they did and we have to think about it. It is worth thinking about the national organization which is against organized crime for each nation.

 

Reference

National Crime Agency - Home". Soca.gov.uk. Retrieved 2014-08-12.

http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/

Attack takes Soca crime agency website down- BBC News Technology 2012 5 12

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17936962

Fukuoka!

The sailing intercollege championship will be held from October 31th to November 4^th in Odo,Fukuoka. I came here yesterday. I practice sailing at Odo yacht harbor everyday. The harbor is regarded as Mecca from sailors. I really looked forward to sailing in Odo.

Odo is surrounded by mountains and islands, so the lay of land affects the directions of wind. This makes the sea condition characteristic and difficult. We have to become sensitive.

By the way, Odo has many good restaurants and “yatai”.Today I ate motsunabe. Motsunabe consisted by nira ,tohu,tougarasi and motsu.

 

It was very tasty and I could be warm by eating. I will try the another restaurant of motsunabe!

Neymar

I watched the soccer match  between Japan and Brasil. I like to watch international  goodwill matches  about Japan. After ending Word Cup 2014, Japan changed Zaccheroni to Aguirre about its own team boss. I was interested in the strategy which Aguirre would take. However,because Brasil was very strong, I could not find a new team  color of Japan and Aguirre's strategy. I was dissapointed about it. On the other side, I enjoyed watching the match that Brasil had many talented players and they made the game exiciting. Neymar was especially good. He scored 4 goals against Japan! I decided that I became a fan of him.

The sailing tournament

The sailing tournament named "Rokudaigakusen" was held on last Saturday and Sunday in Hayama. Keio,Waseda,Housei,Meiji,Rikkyo and Tokyo university joined the tournament.I am proud of a windy condition because races become simple in the windy condition. It was windy last Saturday and the typical north blew, so I was able to sail constantly and the result was good. However, the light wind blew last Sunday. In another words, the sea condition was unstable and  the powers of wind were cleary different in areas of sea. It was important that  a yacht sails on windy parts.Judging the wind condition depends on my eyes. I could not choose a good part of sea and I got a bad result. I had to  be careful in a light wind conditon. It is a theme which I must solve by the all Japan championship.

My favorite soccer team.

Hello!Today,I talk about  my favorite soccer team.My hobby is watching soccer games.My favorite soccer team is AC.Milan. AC.Milan belongs to Seria A. It is a hitorical and big team. However,Milan was clearly bad last season.Milan had a financial problem and Milan sold expensive good players such as Ibrahimović and Thiago Emiliano da Silva to other clubs. As  a result, Milan lack the quality of having power over games and was it was impossible for Milan to win the games.  Keisuke Honda, a Japanese Super Star, joined  Milan in winter,but he does not play well because of that bad team condition.By the way,how is Milan this season? Milan has a new boss Inzagi and he makes Milan strong.Honda also kepps good condition and very active.I enjoy watching Milan's game this season!

Self Introduction

My name is Eiichi Higuchi. I haved lived in Asakusa for 20 years. I belong to the sailing club.
I stsrted sailing when I was a senior high school student.Sailing is serious and interesting. My hobbies are listening to music,playing soccer and playing the piano. My favorite artists are Sina ringo and Gesuno-kiwami-otome.In this class, I would like to communicate with classmates actively in English.